K'ekchí
WALS coordinates: 16° N, 89° 50′ W
spoken in Guatemala
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Alternative Names
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 1A | Consonant Inventories | Average | Phonology | comment | |
| 2A | Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | Phonology | comment | |
| 3A | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | Phonology | comment | |
| 4A | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | Phonology | comment | |
| 5A | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | Phonology | comment | |
| 6A | Uvular Consonants | Uvular stops only | Phonology | comment | |
| 7A | Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives and implosives | Phonology | comment | |
| 8A | Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | Phonology | comment | |
| 11A | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 18A | Absence of Common Consonants | All present | Phonology | comment | |
| 19A | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 53A | Ordinal Numerals | First, two-th, three-th | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 72A | Imperative-Hortative Systems | Neither type of system | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 129A | Hand and Arm | Different | Lexicon |
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| 130A | Finger and Hand | Different | Lexicon |
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